Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Avoid guest page table walk when gpa_available is set

From: Brijesh Singh
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 17:32:46 EST


Hi Paolo and Radim

Any comments on this patch, I could not find it in 4.13-2 branch.

Please let me know if you want to fix something, or want me to
refresh and resend the patch.

- Brijesh

On 05/19/2017 10:12 AM, Brijesh Singh wrote:
From: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>

On AMD hardware when a guest causes a NPF which requires emulation,
the vcpu->arch.gpa_available flag is set to indicate that cr2 contains
a valid GPA.

Currently, emulator_read_write_onepage() makes use of gpa_available flag
to avoid a guest page walk for a known MMIO regions. Lets not limit
the gpa_available optimization to just MMIO region. The patch extends
the check to avoid page walk whenever gpa_available flag is set.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
---
v1: http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=149304930814202&w=2

Changes in v2:
- move gpa_val setting in pf_interception

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 4 ++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 14 +++++++-------
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 695605e..cc87e00 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -678,6 +678,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
/* GPA available (AMD only) */
bool gpa_available;
+ gpa_t gpa_val;
};
struct kvm_lpage_info {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index c27ac69..27fb563 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -2070,9 +2070,13 @@ static void svm_set_dr7(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long value)
static int pf_interception(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
{
u64 fault_address = svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_2;
+ struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &svm->vcpu;
u64 error_code;
int r = 1;
+ /* On #NPF, exit_info_2 contains a valid GPA */
+ vcpu->arch.gpa_val = fault_address;
+
switch (svm->apf_reason) {
default:
error_code = svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_1;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index b54125b..d2d88ed 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4634,16 +4634,16 @@ static int emulator_read_write_onepage(unsigned long addr, void *val,
*/
if (vcpu->arch.gpa_available &&
emulator_can_use_gpa(ctxt) &&
- vcpu_is_mmio_gpa(vcpu, addr, exception->address, write) &&
(addr & ~PAGE_MASK) == (exception->address & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
- gpa = exception->address;
- goto mmio;
- }
+ gpa = vcpu->arch.gpa_val;
+ ret = vcpu_is_mmio_gpa(vcpu, addr, gpa, write);
+ } else {
- ret = vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa(vcpu, addr, &gpa, exception, write);
+ ret = vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa(vcpu, addr, &gpa, exception, write);
- if (ret < 0)
- return X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT;
+ if (ret < 0)
+ return X86EMUL_PROPAGATE_FAULT;
+ }
/* For APIC access vmexit */
if (ret)